Book of Job - priest Daniel Sysoev Interpretation

  1 Then Job answered: 2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. 3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? 4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. 5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. 6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? Here, people have uttered a lot of common phrases that do not comfort at all. Indeed, a pitiful comforter who is unable to show suffering, does not explain why it happened, they just say that you need to repent. How many try to isolate themselves from suffering, so as not to suffer. People are terribly afraid of compassion, they can comfort, but often the heart does not reach, why? Because people are pitiful comforters, they are afraid that someone else's compassion will touch the heart, and if it touches your...

 The second cycle of speeches of Job's friends begins, they try to persuade him, to convince him that he is suffering, that is, “whoever is not guilty, he does not suffer,” you know, there is such a wonderful logic. Eliphaz, the first of his friends, begins, who is his friend - a mystic who receives some revelations, but not from God. Eliphaz, who saw a certain spirit, he said: 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2 “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? 3 Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose? 4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. 5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you. Eliphaz says that you claim that you are wise, but at the same time your words that you speak are empty knowledge, and you fill your belly with a scorching wind that burns you. If yo...

 Today we will continue to study the book of Job, which raises the question of the justice of God. Job turns to God, and says that the Lord is persecuted for sins that were in his youth, which do not correspond to heavy punishments and says further: he describes the fate of a person, says: "Have pity on a person for the sake of his nature." Further Job says: 1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. 2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You? 4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! 5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, 6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand. 7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail. 8 If its root...